Fredrik Svahn

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Fredrik Svahn is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Control and Systems Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fredrik Svahn has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Strategy and Management, 5 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Fredrik Svahn's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (9 papers), Digital Platforms and Economics (7 papers) and Open Source Software Innovations (5 papers). Fredrik Svahn is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (9 papers), Digital Platforms and Economics (7 papers) and Open Source Software Innovations (5 papers). Fredrik Svahn collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Fredrik Svahn's co-authors include Lars Mathiassen, Rikard Lindgren, Ola Henfridsson, Lisen Selander, Youngjin Yoo, Harry Dankowicz, Jenny Jerrelind, Johan Magnusson, Annika Stensson Trigell and Mats Jonasson and has published in prestigious journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Sound and Vibration and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.

In The Last Decade

Fredrik Svahn

26 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns1

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fredrik Svahn Sweden	12	632	274	250	238	204	28	1.2k
David Tilson United States	9	565 0.9×	257 0.9×	211 0.8×	332 1.4×	207 1.0×	22	1.2k
Abayomi Baiyere Denmark	14	505 0.8×	217 0.8×	319 1.3×	337 1.4×	422 2.1×	51	1.5k
Tommaso Buganza Italy	23	747 1.2×	365 1.3×	259 1.0×	248 1.0×	242 1.2×	54	1.3k
Javier Cenamor Sweden	9	760 1.2×	488 1.8×	269 1.1×	282 1.2×	197 1.0×	13	1.3k
Daniel Trabucchi Italy	21	604 1.0×	369 1.3×	152 0.6×	271 1.1×	243 1.2×	51	1.1k
Elena Pessot Italy	17	561 0.9×	170 0.6×	295 1.2×	140 0.6×	277 1.4×	32	1.2k
Andreas Hein Germany	14	707 1.1×	433 1.6×	154 0.6×	297 1.2×	227 1.1×	59	1.3k
Jörg Weking Germany	14	475 0.8×	326 1.2×	157 0.6×	155 0.7×	253 1.2×	45	1.1k
Krithika Randhawa Australia	15	731 1.2×	333 1.2×	312 1.2×	271 1.1×	160 0.8×	31	1.4k
Angelo Natalicchio Italy	18	708 1.1×	283 1.0×	371 1.5×	232 1.0×	365 1.8×	38	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fredrik Svahn

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All Works

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Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2022). Unpacking digital options thinking for innovation renewal: a clinical inquiry into car connectivity. European Journal of Information Systems. 32(1). 23–34. 2 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2021). Resourcing Digital Competence in Product Development: A Computational Study of Recruitment at Volvo Cars. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2020). Becoming a Digital Ecosystem Orchestrator - The Sydved Case. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 6 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2017). Platform Thinking in Incumbent Firms: From Concept to Capability. Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 10 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2016). Shifting Design Capability to Third-Party Developers: An affordance Perspective on Platform Boundary Resources. Americas Conference on Information Systems. 4 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2016). TRANSFORMING ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCE INTO PLATFORM BOUNDARY RESOURCES. European Conference on Information Systems. 7 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, et al.. (2015). Resource Transformation in Platform Envelopment. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations

Svahn, Fredrik, Rikard Lindgren, & Lars Mathiassen. (2015). Applying Options Thinking to Shape Generativity in Digital Innovation: An Action Research into Connected Cars. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 4141–4150. 14 indexed citations

Henfridsson, Ola, Lars Mathiassen, & Fredrik Svahn. (2014). Managing Technological Change in the Digital Age: The Role of Architectural Frames. Journal of Information Technology. 29(1). 27–43. 179 indexed citations

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Selander, Lisen, Ola Henfridsson, & Fredrik Svahn. (2013). Capability Search and Redeem across Digital Ecosystems. Journal of Information Technology. 28(3). 183–197. 155 indexed citations

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Svahn, Fredrik. (2012). Digital Product Innovation: Building Generative Capability through Architectural Frames. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 51(2). 116–122. 13 indexed citations

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Svahn, Fredrik & Ola Henfridsson. (2012). The Dual Regimes of Digital Innovation Management. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 3347–3356. 29 indexed citations

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Selander, Lisen, Ola Henfridsson, & Fredrik Svahn. (2010). TRANSFORMING ECOSYSTEM RELATIONSHIPS IN DIGITAL INNOVATION. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 138. 43 indexed citations

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Svahn, Fredrik, Ola Henfridsson, & Youngjin Yoo. (2009). A Threesome Dance of Agency : Mangling the Sociomateriality of Technological Regimes in Digital Innovation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 5. 35 indexed citations

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Henfridsson, Ola, Youngjin Yoo, & Fredrik Svahn. (2009). Path Creation in Digital Innovation: A Multi-Layered Dialectics Perspective. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 9(20). 29 indexed citations

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Svahn, Fredrik & Ola Henfridsson. (2009). Situated Knowledge in Context-Aware Computing. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1(3). 23–41. 2 indexed citations

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Henfridsson, Ola, Lars Mathiassen, & Fredrik Svahn. (2009). Reconfiguring Modularity: Closing Capability Gaps in Digital Innovation. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 9(22). 13 indexed citations

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Jonasson, Mats, et al.. (2009). Modelica and Dymola for education in vehicle dynamics at KTH. Linköping electronic conference proceedings. 43. 775–783. 1 indexed citations

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Dankowicz, Harry & Fredrik Svahn. (2007). On the stabilizability of near‐grazing dynamics in impact oscillators. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 17(15). 1405–1429. 16 indexed citations

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Svahn, Fredrik. (2004). In-car navigation usage: An end-user survey on existing systems. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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